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The work of looking for work continues. Local weather is uncertain at the moment. One of my friends from local fandom is down with a serious illness, not COVID-19 but probably terminal. Immediate family is mostly okay for now.

I feel like there's more to say publicly here, but I'm not sure what it is yet.

SHIELD: A Quick Thought

I suspect that we're not going to see much of our soldier-spy heroes for a while, given some of the antics going on across the real world of late. Despite the feeling that anti-fascist soldier-spies may be exactly what we want or need among our fictional and real heroes right now. It all just looks too shady.

This may also explain why DC's reorganizing Checkmate from its previous roles as first a US government intel shop and later a United Nations-attached organization into a loose band of four solo heroes (including Lois Lane).